Unfortunately much of the records related to Germans to America out of ports other than from the Wuerttemberg area have been destroyed. I just checked my Wuerttemberg Index and there were no Stulkens. Human migration is predictable in the sense that people go where others of their nationality and religion are already. If you can find out where the German community in Ogle County came from, that might give you a good clue as to where he was from. The Family History Center of the Mormon Church has a very good collection of German Records on CD in the IGI - many extracted church records. One of the important thing to remember is that Germany was only unified in the late 1800's, before that it was a series of Duchys or individual states, so people identified themselves as Wuerttembergians and Mecklenburgiche instead of Germans. They often named thier towns after the towns in Germany (Batavia in New York is an example). There is also a German phone book distribution - I've checked it for my in laws German names - and it will show you the areas in which the name is most common. Then join that list on the net and see what you can get. I joined the Mecklenburg-Schwerin List and connected with my MILs line back to 1630. Found a descendant of the only sibling that had stayed behind with her parents. Donna